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Students Rely On City Transit - Does It Work?

Thirty thousand Baltimore City students use public transit to get to class. Credit: Elvert Barnes/Flickr Creative Commons.
Elvert Barnes
Thirty thousand Baltimore City students use public transit to get to class. Credit: Elvert Barnes/Flickr Creative Commons.

We hear from the report’s co-author Kwane Wyatt, Program Director of Analysis & Engagement at the Fund for Educational Excellence. Then students Imani Humphries-Torres and Kamri Moses describe some of their personal experiences.

Link: Not In Service: Why Public Transit Must Aim to Serve Students

Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am.
Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'